Aisha-Nusrat Ahmad & Maik Fielitz 
Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia [PDF ebook] 
Critical Interventions

Contents
Introduction: Critical Interventions in Knowledge Production from Within and Without Academia 7
Aisha-N. Ahmad, Maik Fielitz, Johanna Leinius and Gianna M. Schlichte
I. Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Productionin Academia
Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Production in Academia: Introductory Remarks. 29
Katarina Froebus
Imaging the Power of Academia: Of Deficient Figures, Good Theologies and Governing Rationalities in the German Islam Conference 43
Zubair Ahmad and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar
Nobody Wants to be ‘Poor’-Power Effects of Knowledge (Re-)Production and (Im-)Possibilities of Critique 63
Sophie Künstler
Excellence Goes Congo. The Power Structure of Academia between North and South: A Case Study of the Master of Microfinance 85
Anne Reiff, Miranda Loli, Janina Hirth and Kristina Weil
The Political Epistemology of the International Financial Crisis between 2007 and 2009-an International Relations View on the Politics of Knowledge 105
Sebastian Levi
II. Challenging the Norms of Academic Forms of Knowledge
Border Conflicts: The Power of Art in Academia 131
Johann Szews
Challenging Formats: Content and Form in Dialogue. 137
Jörg Holkenbrink and Anna Seitz
Against Functionalization: On Artistic Research 151
Falk Rößler and Philipp Schulte
Beuys as Philosopher: The Aporia of Fat 163
Dror Pimentel
Aesthetic Difference: On the ‘Wisdom’ of the Arts 181
Dieter Mersch
Notes on Contributors 197

Aisha-Nusrat Ahmad ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Maik Fielitz ist wiss. Mitarbeiter am Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft in Jena. Johanna Leinius ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin an der Universität Kassel. Gianna Magdalena Schlichte ist wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Bremer Institut für Kriminalwissenschaften.